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Sir Will posted...

Strider102 posted...

I remember when K. A. Applegate responded to people about the ending and gave that old "war is war, casualties, blah blah blah"

But that wasn't what the first 85% of the series was. I mean, there were some harsh realities sure but the last stretch was much darker. And yeah the cliffhanger thing was just stupid.

AlCalavicci posted...

Sir Will posted...

I loved the series. I have like all of them after book 20 or something. I think I missed some of the earlier ones. The school library had some and then I started buying them.

I hate how it ended. The last stretch of books got really dark and everybody ends up dead, maybe dead because cliffhanger, or just plain miserable. Only Casey had a happy ending. Or as happy as can be when all her friends are dead or gone. And don't even get me started on the auxiliary kids....

I don't remember of the top of my head the Cassie ending. Was it just that she split from the group and didn't go with the rest of them to rescue/fight Ax/Alien? So essentially she would have lived?

She happily worked in some nature reserve thing or something. She was happy and was able to move on. Even move on from Jake. Marco was fairly happy too but actually did go along with the save Ax thing.

I guess I kinda remember that. Yeah, it wasn't enough for a real happy ending. The war/casualty thing tainted everything, and Ax's possession situation, without being resolved to know that Ax would be ok, sucked..

Also I don't remember off the top of my head what happened with Tobias, but I think that was also not good, as in either he didn't join them on the ship and lived by himself as a lowly Hawk, or he did join them on the ship and would have suffered whatever fate Jake/Marco suffered facing "The One".

Bleh